1. High Performance Networking in Agricultural Research
Marco van den Berg William G. Padolina
International Rice Research Institute

2. Exciting times in rice research
Simultaneous revolutions in biology, communications, and computational power
Remote data storage and analysis capacities universally accessible
Bioinformatics
Vast arrays of data generated worldwide
Remote computational power generates new generation of questions and applications
Global Rice Science Partnership

3. Omics Genomics, Proteomics, etc. 2005 - Rice genome sequence published
SUB1 gene identified
Swarna-SUB1 variety developed
Released to farmers
Start sequencing 10,000 varieties (500 TeraBytes raw data 4 TB net data)
Drought-tolerant gene
201? - Sequenced >108,000 rice varieties

4. Rice Sequencing Consortium (2005)
National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences/Institute of the Society for Techno-innovation of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Japan The Institute for Genomic Research USA Chinese Academy of Sciences China INRA-URGV France Cirad-Amis France The University of Arizona USA Academia Sinica Taiwan National Cheng Kung University Taiwan National Yang-Ming University University of Delhi India Indian Agricultural Research Institute Rutgers University USA National Institute of Agricultural Science and Technology Republic of Korea Rice Gene Discovery Unit Kasetsart University Thailand Centro de Genomica e Fitomelhoramento Brazil John Innes Centre UK Washington University USA University of Wisconsin USA Center for Information Biology and DNA Data Bank of Japan National Institute of Genetics Japan National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology Japan National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences Japan Medical Research Institute Japan Biological Informatics Consortium Japan Cornell University USA Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory USA McGill University Canada York University Canada International Rice Research Institute Philippines Graduate School of Natural Sciences Nagoya City University Japan Brookhaven National Laboratory USA

5. DNA Data Transfer Building a bigger picture with advanced communications links
Dr. Detlef Weigel (Max Planck Institute):
This is a milestone that is key for the next phase of exploiting the genes that have been accumulated over millennia in the many rice strains available at IRRI and in gene banks at other rice breeding institutes worldwide
Dr Ken McNally (IRRI)
Tens of gigabytes of data generated in the initial study were shared with collaborators and published on external databases to make them available to researchers around the world. Data volumes will rise dramatically in the future

6. Global Rice Information Gateway
Real-time crop information
medium-term supply and demand outlook
policy briefs
comprehensive rice data sets at all levels
Rice monitoring and forecasting system for each country will be developed by combining techniques such as satellite-based remote sensing with weather and crop modeling, and econometric modeling.

7. European Space Agency ENVISAT
Heavy Traffic
European Space Agency ENVISAT
2011: 200 scenes x 60 MB = 12 GB
2012: 15,000 scenes = 900 GB

8. First Mile = The Farmer Connecting farmers with research
Site Specific Nutrient Management
Use the farmer as the sensor
Simple, local language interface
Web & Voice Operational in Philippines, Android in Beta test
Next: Indonesia, China, Bangladesh
In development: Crop Manager

9. Decision Support Tools Web / Phone
Precision agriculture services to poor farmers
Savings
Loans
Crop Insurance
Service Platform
Input Supply
Farmer Guidelines
Decision Support Tools Web / Phone
Tools for Wise Investments
Nutrient Manager
Crop Manager
Tools to protect investment
Crop Doctor
Pest Management
Consolidation of Knowledge
Localization
Research
Verification
R&D
Modeling
Simulations
Farmer Participatory Testing

10. Agricultural Research Funding Falls Short IRRI Budget 1960-2009 000 US$ 2009